Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-02-18

folds OF tissue paper. BARGE and bal
zarine satin. plain and figured: velvet;
sin. plain. dtmask. lowered. shot.
corded AMI glaze; robes a disposition.
and robes not: two-iiount,.d ruhrS. and
-iluunced. and four-lluuncrd. and
douI'lr->hirtrd and open; SO many that
the eve looked to their colors for relief.
Beautiful co ors: green. blue, pink,
lilac. purple. gray. pearl. stone. violet.
brown. amisr. lemon; not dress Of
every color. but a dress of every shade
of every color. And Vet new and
rich. and elegant rs they We're. Mrs
Da rvmple could not 20 to the fete
without new one.
Il want thousand thinTs," cried
Selma. when she reached Mime. DAM
errau' 5. Have you sold the green
and-white gauze drcss?'
No, was Madame answer. she had
kept it on purpose for Nine. bal
rremp. Miladv Oak-tonne had come
in yesterday AFTERNOON late ami wanted
it. but she had told Milady it was sold.
Selma took it all in. The fact was.
Madame had tried to persuade Milady
Oakton into it, but Milady was proof
tiiC HiitS- IL W 10 OliN S'NCH-
teen guineas, and that included the
fringe and trimmings. Selma had told
her husband that gauzc dresses cost
nothing! She vas too eager TO ask the
price now.
II shall go in it to the breakfast on
Thursday. What mantle can wear"
A momentous question. Mrs. Dali
rymple and Nine. Damrrrau ran over
the nantes, scarfS. shawl>. etc, pos
srsSrd 10y the former. aS ma " aS they
could rccollcct. and came Ia the con-
clu>inn that there WIS MOI one that
would "gO with it.
Il have lace mantle" sail Madame
-"ah! but it is rrchrrcEr-a real
Brussels. If there is one dress in my
house that it ought to 20 with, it is
that grecp-ani-whtc."
She brought it forward and exhibited
it upon the dress. Very hrautiful; of
thai there WAS no doubt 1t WAS prob
ably Il beautiful price. also.
twenty-five yuinraS."
"Oh, my goodness - Twenty-Five
griinras" cried Selma. "But I'll take
it. a breakfast fete does not come
every day"
Fora wondcr-f0ra wonder Selma
had exhibited her white lace bonnet
with the emcralds but twice. ard came
to the conclusion that that would do"
Not that she hcsitatcd at buying an
other. but it was so suitable to the
grccn-and-whitc dress.
"And now for my court oh. stop.
| think | must have a new parasol;
NV po:nt-lacc one is soi!cd, and
caught ii in my bracelet the other day,
and tore it little. You had brauii-
full point-lare parasol here yesterday.
Let me see it. -
The one YOU were looking at yes
terday will not do cried Madame.
ut is lined with blaze. Nine. BAL
rc"mp knows that blue can never go
with the green dress. | have got one
/ parasol ;ih, tnt it is the bcauty!-a
/ l,oint-lace lined with white. will get
it. 1t does surpass the other"
1t did surpass the other, and in price
also. Selma chose it. 1t was twenty
guineas.
"And now about my court-drrSS.
am going to the next drawin.-room
1t must be all white, of course"
''Jc cro:5 bicn que oui, answered
Madame. "As if = bride. with taste
would he presented in ANY thing else"
At this juncturc who should come in
Me- hGsa n SsS s6ss You 1sry S%
she said to Selma. land it is nearly the
end of the season. White is less cx-
pensive than any thing else. For about
fifteen pounds you may have one OF
elegant simplicity. Always best for O
presentation.
Nine. Damereau turned up her
nose. and Selma turned hers down,
both in contempt of the advice. White
silk was fixed upon; not very ex-
pensivc in itself; but before its APP.
purt"nancrS We're completed, its train,
and its trimmings, and its lace (real
Mechlim. and its ribbons. and its
fripperics. and its headdress. and its
flowers, and its feathers. it had
amounted to-not pounds. but scores.
Nine. Dalrymplc went TO the break.
fast, and she and her attire were lovely
amidst the lovely. She went TO the
drawing-room, presented by the Hon
orabc Mrs. Cleveland. and the admi-
ration and envy she excited were great
Very satisfactory to her, no doubt; very
gratifying to her heart which was just
then topsy-turvy with vanity. And sc
it went on to the end of the season,
and her plcasurablc course was never
checked; it was a dazzling career OF
dress. vanity and admiration.
When they were preparing to return
to the Grange, and her maid was
driven wild with perplexity as to the
slowing away of so extensive a ward
robe, and conjecturing that the car.
riage down of it would alone come tC
something" it occurred to Selma, as
she sat watching, that the original cos,
would also come to something"
Some hundreds. she feared, now she
came to see the whole collection in q
mass.
"Of course l shan't let him see it, -
she soliloquizcd, abiding to her hus-
band. III get the bill from Madame
before leave; and then therc'll be nc
fear of its coming in to him at the
Grange"
Mrs. Dalrymple asked for the bill,
and Madame, under protest that there
was no hurry in the world. promised
to send it in.
Selma was sitting in the drawing
room by twilight when it was delivered
to her, inclosed in Il large thick envel
ope. with an imposing red seal. She
opened it somewhat eagerly. "What
makes it such bulk?' she exclaimed
to herself. "Oh, she has detailed the
things. did not care about that" II
was written in business-like, but ele
giant hand, that of Mrs. Cooper; dates
details. all were there. But Selma
could not SEE clearly in the evening
gloom, and she struck a match and
lighted the wax taper on her writing
table, anxious to look at the sum total
"f94," she soliloouized, glancing al
the bottom of the first page. at must
be deal more than that; what doe.
Madame meanp Psha" she found she
was only looking at one item; the Ven
ice point-lace fer the decoration Of &
dress.
She held the taper to the bottom o.
the second page. ".Moire antique robe
lace. trimmings and sapphire buttons
f125.' Psha!" again exclaimed Selma
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